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Sat, 26 Jan 2019 13:40:08 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1By: Joannahttp://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/models-of-mental-illness/comment-page-1/#comment-684995
JoannaMon, 26 Nov 2012 16:33:54 +0000http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/?p=1560#comment-684995The ‘recovery model’ with NHS Trust ‘recovery colleges’ are no better. It’s just the medical model wrapped around a bit of Budlite mindfulness, life coaching, with insistence on using community facilities. Maybe people prefer the company of others with first hand experience and don’t want to use the local library, gym, adult education college for good reasons. These trumped up courses never address iatrogenic damage and developing one’s own understanding. Service commissioners see recovery as discharge or employment and so-called critical thinkers see recovery as no meds, no state support or else you’re a lazy idiot. There’s only room for ‘recovery stories’ with enforced hope and smiling. Anyone who disagrees is shown the door.
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Louise GillettThu, 22 Nov 2012 17:28:46 +0000http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/?p=1560#comment-681776I agree with the other Louise – mental health problems, aka emotional distress, have individual solutions. I know people who would not dream of stopping their medications – on the other hand, I don’t believe I have ever benefitted from being drugged. I think any psychiatrist needs to start by talking to the individual and trying to understand them – it may help to know that even in the midst of psychosis there are lucid episodes where a patient can be reached (this was certainly my experience and that of many others I have met).
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Abigail TessmanThu, 15 Mar 2012 12:30:26 +0000http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/?p=1560#comment-495644Forget what is unimportant, and live in the today. No one needs to have a strong exertion over you, that is one way to get over depression.
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LouiseTue, 15 Nov 2011 17:26:21 +0000http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/?p=1560#comment-409695“…using their own conceptual model to explain what they find before them”..and therein lies the fatal flaw with all the disciplines but especially psychiatry – how about letting the individual decide what their explanatory framework is and mental health professionals work within that and this may not mean agreement.
There are no biological ‘markers’ for differences in perception which can be tested for like diabetes and changes to the brain are typically observed in the scans of medicated brains which cause these chemical and structural changes. Why would certain types of therapy not be suitable for what is viewed as psychosis? Where are the trials evaluating this [other than CBT]?
Where are the trials evaluating approaches developed by Loren Mosher [Soteria] and approaches developed by the hearing voices movement which focuses on understanding the meanings and functions of people’s differences in perception within the context of their life experiences? The first line response to differences in perception in psychiatry is medication and for over 50 years the rate of benefit has hardly shifted, so why doesn’t the profession be brave and look at incorporating all sorts of influences from philosophy to the spiritual to service user defined approaches. A truly holistic approach would be open to anything and anything the individual wants to look at. The biggest disservice we do to people is to define their distress for them.
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Evan HanksFri, 11 Nov 2011 13:24:54 +0000http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/?p=1560#comment-406172Have you ever considered that the conventional idea of mental disease might be up-side down? That its development out of pathology and the medical model has skewed its perception? I’m interested to know what you think about a more synthetic model which might view “symptoms” as purposive rather than causal.
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Jean DavisonThu, 10 Nov 2011 22:42:16 +0000http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/?p=1560#comment-405649Ah, if only it was that simple!
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Maria-IoSun, 06 Nov 2011 05:52:13 +0000http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/?p=1560#comment-401120How about systemic/family therapy formulations? They’re common in places with strong family ties and relevant training available…
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Christopher CrookThu, 03 Nov 2011 18:15:03 +0000http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/?p=1560#comment-398887well that clears things up
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